Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Matt Robert Bohm, University of Louisville; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

box and functional models before first sharing and iterating with their team members and then sharing and iterating as a class. During the course, students individually generate a black box and functional model for the course project as homework. Feedback is provided on their homework, and using the feedback, students then work as a team to arrive at revised black box and functional models for the course project. It is this revised team functional model that becomes the basis for morphological matrix based concept generation and function-based failure analysis. 20• Mechanics & Materials: In the mechanics and materials course, students taught from Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, 21 are

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University; Daphne Duncan Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; So Yoon Yoon, INSPIRE, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006. In addition to trainings located on Universitycampus, INSPIRE with support from the National Science Foundation, has provided five yearsof TPD for engineering in one school district located in the Southern United States. Throughoutthe course of working with multiple schools in that school district, some teachers communicatedthat they would no longer participate in engineering. The district adopted new testing standardsthe second year of our project and many teachers reported stress related to the new associatedcurriculum and amount of time spent testing. As is the case for all teachers, especially in gradeswith high-stakes testing, instructional time is quite valuable; doing anything above and beyondwhat directly maps to the standards

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to these subjects such as highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering Careers in the school auditorium. The audience for this presentation usually ranges from 100 to 300 students. On campus recruiting of prospective students and community STEM events. The Engineering Ambassadors are active

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jennifer Anna Kersten, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Micah S Stohlmann, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Forster D. Ntow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Karl A Smith, University of Minnesota & Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, Contributions, and Future Directionsof Discipline-Based Education Research that produced the National Research Council Report, Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engi-neering. He has written eight books including How to Model It: Problem solving for the computer age;Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity; Strategies for energizing largeclasses: From small groups to learning communities; and Teamwork and project management, 4th Ed. Page 23.46.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

ultimate outputgoal of the academic experience. To that end research and academic activities have revolvedaround how to provide a better design experience as the purpose of education as opposed toproviding education in what were the desired skills of industry supporting design. Industrypractitioners suggested that possession of the presented, more fundamental skills would result inthe ability to design, but that the ability to design was not the ultimate goal.Student Observations. The senior capstone design course observed by the first author was taughtby four different instructors, had a variety of projects and task emphases, had different classsizes, and used a variety of different instructional methodologies. Generally, the expressed goalsof

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

annually.Research Question 2: What are the available resources to support development of aregional learning center for engineering? Inspection of the Phase I survey data showed that organizations prefer supporting students(see Figure 2). Sixteen of 21 respondents to the question of providing support to the localengineering program indicated that they would participate in design projects while only 1 of 21 Page 15.381.9respondents indicated that they would finance facility construction or fund infrastructuredevelopment. There were no responses to the choice of endowing faculty. Phase II results;however, clarified that organizations believe that tangible

Conference Session

Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

his co-op experience, Spencer researched whether projects weretechnologically “feasible,” economically “doable,” and could be completed in a timely fashion. After completing her internship, Jill realized how her first-year student design projectsucceeded technically, but failed to consider contextual factors such as costs, and manpower. The [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] system that we came up with, that we thought would be the best to use, realistically, it looked good on paper. It would have done exactly what it needed to be done, and we ended up getting an A on the project. However, realistically, it would have been very difficult to implement. With the price of materials always going up and down, it

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Dr. Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El PasoDr. Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso Eric D. Smith is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), working within the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department. He earned a B.S. in Physics in 1994, an M.S. in Systems Engineering in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering

Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Chirag Patel; David Joseph Tortoriello; Justin Baldacci, ASME Northeastern chapter; Jeffrey Speroni

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Integrated Defense Systems, where Speroni worked as a radar systems analyst. This work experience was heavy on MATLAB and data analysis. His second co-op was at Instron, where he worked on several different projects. Speroni worked on testing a new hardness engineering software, as well as designing custom test fixtures. These designs were made using SolidWorks. His current co-op is at Resolute Marine Energy, where he is again using SolidWorks to design hydraulic systems. Page 23.233.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Augmenting a First-year Design Course with an

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

efficaciouslyreplaced by an audio or tactile one; or that hands-on and observational exercises might beequivalent to one another; or that different persons might justifiably use different instruments toundertake the same technical learning or labor. In short, this paper sketches a politics ofengineering epistemologies around issues of disability.This is part of a larger project regarding the meanings of identity in STEM education moregenerally, a body of work by scholars loosely grouped under the emergent Engineering Studies(ES) rubric.* This scholarship is not extensive but in the last few years it has carefully ∗considered the social instrumentality of categories including race, class, gender, LGBT identities,and age as enacted in

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Institutional Transformation. In this project, 26 colleges anduniversities sought to accomplish institution-wide changes on their campuses. Theirstudy of six of these institutions found that change processes “at each institution wereclearly influenced by deeply embedded patterns of behavior, expectations, values, andbeliefs about how that institution function[ed]”19. Leaders at each institution had to“craft” change strategies that “fit” their institutional cultures. The culture was themodifying element of the change process, and was manifested in the people within theorganization.20From a case study of a state college, Tierney21 developed a framework to diagnoseorganizational culture in order to understand management and organizationalperformance. His

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

The Research Communications Studio as a Tool for Developing Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering C. Long, E. Alford, J. Brader, L. Donath, R. Johnson, C. Liao, T. McGarry, M. Matthews, R. Spray, N. Thompson, and E. Vilar University of South CarolinaAbstractThe NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) project at the University of SouthCarolina, responding to groundbreaking theories in How People Learn, is among the firstattempts to measure students’ responses to research-based learning in a distributed cognitionenvironment. As an alternative to the unguided research scenario often encountered by part-timeundergraduate researchers, the project

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

. Page 7.685.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationLectures and Teaching MaterialThe instructors had to be proactive with such a teaching strategy. For example, studentsat the distance education campus had to have access to all the teaching material includinghandouts before the class begins. The following strategies were used. (1) Posting the lecture material and slides on the departmental web site. (2) Sending some of the material via email. (3) Using FedEx to deliver some teaching material, handouts, and graded projects and assignments (as well as term tests) to a liaison at the distance

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McNeill, University of Florida, Gainesville; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

- sity. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Pri- mary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3360: A HALF BRAIN IS GOOD: A WHOLE BRAIN IS MUCHBETTERDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE, is an independent consultant provid- ing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. Prior to beginning his consul- tancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a Project Engineer and Manager, Department Head, Discipline Manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and Dean of an engineering college. Walesh authored or co-authored six books and many engineering and education publications and presentations. His most recent book is Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of En

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Martinez, University of Costa Rica; Marcelo Jenkins, University of Costa Rica

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

has been teaching computer science at the University of Costa Rica. From 1993 until 1998, he coordinated the Graduate Committee, and from 1998 through 2001, he was the Chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. His research interests are in software engineer- ing, software quality assurance, project management, and object-oriented programming. He has authored more than 40 technical papers on these subjects. As an independent consultant, he has worked with some of the largest software companies in the Central America region in establishing software quality man- agement systems. In the last 15 years, he has taught several seminars on software quality assurance and software project management in

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chuan Yue, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Gregory Lynn Williams, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Edward Chow, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. His research aims at improving the security, reliability, and performance of network systems. He has two U.S. patents on distributed network restora- tion and survivable architecture. He recently developed an efficient internet security (IPSec) protocol that significantly improves the performance and security of online storage systems. In an AFOSR-NISSC sponsored project, a secure information sharing system was developed for setting up secure information infrastructure which is based on attribute certificate to coordinate multiple agencies task forces. He is the Principal Investigator of an international

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Kenneth J. Williamson, Oregon State University; Jeffrey A. Nason, Oregon State University; Goran Jovanovic Ph.D., Oregon State University; Chih-hung Chang, Oregon State University; Adam Z. Higgins, Oregon State University; Craig M. Gates, Oregon State University; Richard Mark Roehner, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Rensselaer Studio Model8 and Workshop Physics.9 Recently, theseefforts have been expanded to include design of technology-enhanced classroom architectures tosupport learning, such as with the SCALE-UP project at North Carolina State University10,11 andthe Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) project at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.12 Another curricular model focuses the reform methods by incorporating activelearning pedagogies to help students learn concepts and problem-solving in small studios thataccompany larger lecture classes, such as Tutorials in Introductory Physics13,14 and CollaborativeGroup Problem Solving.15 The implementation of studios reported in this paper is based on thelatter model and is described next.The

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 5 - Careers and Professional Identity

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Macdonald-Roach, University of Toronto; Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Dimpho Radebe, University of Toronto; Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto; Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

through a socialidentity lens, either feeling fortified in her engineering identity through her promotion and therecognition of her engineering leadership by her peers, or an erosion of her engineering identitywhen her career track and sociotechnical skillset is compared with “nuts and bolts” engineerswho graduated from her program. In our analysis, we will use these theories to identify andinterpret the different ways in which engineering graduates across an intersectional gender/racevariable understand their professional identities and the factors that influence them.Research MethodsData & Variables of InterestThis study uses data collected from a larger project titled “More than Recruitment & Retention:Tracking Inequity in Engineers

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University; Alexander V Struck Jannini, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

my country in order to even start thinking about things like the work we are doing in the Center. So as of now, I think our focus should be first on developing technology in the U.S., making sure it actually works. Still, this is a really complex task we have. It's nice and everything being the pioneer, but there's so many challenges to this because you're dealing with unknown variables the entire time, and new things to solve. First, we have to focus on specific things in order to—if we want to advance it even more. And after we have that, we can start thinking about how we can apply this in other places. Now, personally, I'm of the belief that this might be like, like COVID. We just need any one of these projects to work

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan; Sara Rose Vohra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jeanne Sanders, University of Michigan; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan; Andrea J Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

education research.Andrea J Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellness in EngineeringMental health challenges are a growing concern in engineering education. A culture thatpromotes wellness in engineering could support both student and faculty psychological health.As part of a larger, ongoing project on the mental health and wellness of undergraduateengineers, our team has investigated how stress and culture interact in engineering education toproduce environments that promote hardness over wellness. We posit that faculty and staff areinfluential stakeholders

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 28

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youla Ali, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

–student interaction data, where the frequency of online interactions proved to betterindicate student persistence and success than did the length of interactions. And the study by Aguiaret al. (2014) [14] predicted persistence using first‐year engineering students' electronic portfolios,extracting information about their course engagement through their reflections about engineeringadvising, project updates, and engineering exploration throughout the course. Using attributesrelated to student activities such as assignment skips, assessment performance, and video skips andlags to predict student dropout in online courses, while the study by Halawa et al. (2014) [15] wasable to successfully flag 40%–50% of students who dropped out of the course

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furnbach Clavijo P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

design courses or project work courses,those easily encompass teamwork, leadership, and creativity.” This is supported by research thatsuggests that problem-based learning, which is used in design courses, allows for simultaneousprofessional and technical skill development [12]. One of the participants noted how coupled theskills can be together and hard to assess them separately. EF added: So I think that those (communication) are some of the more important soft skills that are a little bit difficult to assess. And I find that they’re difficult to assess because they’re difficult to decouple from the technical content. Meaning if someone is going to do a great job presenting awful technical work, it’s very difficult

Conference Session

Modeling and Problem-Solving

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L. Cole, Northwestern University; Robert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Esteban Molina, Florida International University; Matthew R. Glucksberg, Northwestern University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

projects. Page 22.236.2 1IntroductionMathematical modeling is essential to engineering practice and a valuable tool for engineeringdesign. Engineers who generate mathematical models or use mathematical and conceptualknowledge to reason, interpret, and communicate solutions have some level of “quantitativeliteracy.” Dossey2 defines quantitative literacy as “the ability to interpret and apply these aspectsof mathematics to fruitfully understand, predict, and control relevant factors in a variety ofcontexts.” By “these aspects”, Dossey means “data representation and interpretation, numberand operation

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

included among them are Vice President for Educational Research, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, and interim Dean of Engineering at Drexel. He has also held positions with the General Electric and DuPont companies, has been a staff member of the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives as a Congressional© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Fellow, a Program Director at NSF, and a Visiting Scientist with the Legislative Office of Research Liaison of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He has been Principal Investigator of a number of bioengineering research projects involving implantable transmitters and sensors and their use in

Conference Session

Learning Styles

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

SOFTWARE FOR MEASURING THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS: ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS Michael J. Pavelich, Ronald L. Miller and Barbara M. Olds Colorado School of MinesAbstractMost methods currently available to measure intellectual development in college students areeither marginally reliable or are expensive and time consuming. In an attempt to circumventthese difficulties, we have developed Cogito ã, a software package which uses a neural networkto find patterns in "noisy" paper-and-pencil data and relate them to the Perry or ReflectiveJudgment models of intellectual development. The project was supported by a grant from FIPSE.We will report the results of testing this

Conference Session

Track 7: Technical Session 3: The Missing Misrecognition in Recognition and Engineering Identity Research

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Annie Yong Patrick, Georgia Tech; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sara Schley Schley, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

had experiences in which I was recognized as an engineer.” (Bahnson et al., 2021) • Friends, family, peers, and advisors see me as an engineer (Choe & Borrego, 2019) • Ask students to rate to what extent parents, relatives, and friends see them as engineers. (Kendall, Procter, et al., 2019) As we reviewed this work in parallel to our research project, we were led to considerrecognition in other ways. For the many studies that considered the experience of being seen andassessing it within self-reflection and the perspective of others, how did a lack of recognitionmanifest? Therefore, we set forth to examine misrecognition to contribute to enriching the presentengineering identity

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Electronics and Circuits

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Figure 13. Theexam consisted of questions on basic concepts, all of which were written to be of equaldifficulty. One of the questions was on the concept demonstrated by the in-class lab. Figure 1 is ascatter plot of student scores on that question versus the other questions on the exam, with thesolid line shown to indicate equal performance on the two types of questions. Most of thestudents in the class are above the solid line indicating that they performed better on the conceptquestion related to the experiment than questions on other topics. Another class had three hands-on activities (two in-class experiments and one take-home project). For this class, a conceptsinventory pre- and post-test were taken as well as student surveys of their self

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helena Isabel Scutt, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

enroll in calculus.Taken together, this knowledge provides compelling evidence of the importance ofcommunication skills in engineering, and suggests that emphasis on the integration of math andcommunication skills in engineering would benefit women students in particular.4. Demonstrate and Encourage ResilienceThis practice is about helping students learn to embrace challenges and setbacks by teachingthem that their academic skills are malleable. In addition to combatting the negative stereotypesof their technical abilities that girls and women face, this practice is an important life lesson forall students.Using spatial skills as an example of a broader phenomenon, the Assessing Women inEngineering project suggests that “score differences

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Page 23.1164.3femininities breaking down the “binary opposition between male and female”10 and allowing for“creative interrogation of the ways in which people ‘do’ gender”.15Engineering as MasculineAfter World War I, engineering was, according to Ruth Oldenziel, a “project inmasculinization”. 16 The word “engineer” was originally given to the military troops who created,built, and operated machinery [engines] of war.17 This link between military and engineering hasled to construction of a hegemonic masculinity that pervades the professional and educationalenvironments of engineering. The term hegemonic refers to the cultural ideal of masculinity thatis dominant and is associated with men who are in power.18Not only is this masculine image of